Jimmy
@Jimmy
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Joined on 26 Mar 2018
Jimmy upvoted the following post over 4 years ago:
Torey
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over 4 years ago
Effective influencer marketing in 2020 will hinge on ‘creator’ direction
Effective influencer marketing in 2020 will hinge on ‘creator’ directionAlmost half of marketers want total control over sponsored influencer posts, according to a recentstudy. Old habits die hard. For marketers used to masterminding a brand message and ensuring its imple...continued
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Marjory
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over 4 years ago
ProducePay nabs $190 million debt financing to lend to farmers
ProducePay nabs $190 million debt financing for its purchasing program for farmers – TechCrunchLos Angeles-based ProducePay has inked a $190 million debt facility from CoVenture and TCM Capital to expand its purchasing model and marketplace for farmers.ProducePay offers f...continued
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Jimmy upvoted the following post over 4 years ago:
Webster
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over 4 years ago
How Fox Business covered axed 'Home Alone 2' Trump scene
How Fox Business covered axed 'Home Alone 2' Trump sceneThe Canadian Broadcasting Corp. confirmed that a version of 'Home Alone 2' released without President Donald Trump's cameo was edited in 2014, but that didn't stop Fox Business News or Donald Trump Jr. from criticizi...continued
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Jeffrey
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over 4 years ago
Report: Advertising Scammer Bribed a Facebook Employee to Keep Its Posts Up
Advertising Scammer Bribed a Facebook Employee to Keep Its Posts UpHere’s one more leak in the drip drip drip of evidence that Facebook is totally out of control, even if and when it tries to get it together. Buzzfeed reports that an extremely predatory scammer that explo...continued
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Teagan
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over 4 years ago
The Two Myths of the Internet
The Two Myths of the InternetOn January 21, 2010 Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton addressed a crowd at the Newseum in Washington, DC. She was there to proclaim the power and importance of “internet freedom.” In the previous few years, she said, online tools had e...continued
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Juliet
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over 4 years ago
The FAA proposes remote ID technology for drones
The FAA proposes remote ID technology for drones – TechCrunchThe Federal Aviation Administration this week issued proposed rules for the remote identification of drones in the U.S. The “next exciting step in safe drone integration” (their words) aims to offer a kind of li...continued
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Arvid
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over 4 years ago
Ask This Instead of 'Any Questions?'
Ask This Instead of 'Any Questions?'I come from a quiet people. My classmates and I were always bad at asking questions of the teacher, or recognizing that we had questions. I wish I’d had someone like historian and professor Jacqueline Antonovich, who recently tweeted a ...continued
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Devin
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over 4 years ago
Why Endeavor CMO Bozoma Saint John is joining Pencils of Promise as its Ghana ambassador
Endeavor CMO Bozoma Saint John will be Pencils of Promise's Ghana ambaFounded in 2008 by Adam Braun (brother of Scooter Braun), Pencils of Promise has built more than 500 schools in Ghana, Guatemala, and Laos to serve underprivileged children. While Saint John was born in...continued
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Jessika
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over 4 years ago
Toys “R” Us Is Back—Now With More Surveillance\!
Toys “R” Us Is Back—Now With More Surveillance!After filing for bankruptcy and closing more than 800 stores last year, Toys "R" Us is back. The iconic retailer has opened two new mall outposts, one in Texas and another in New Jersey, just in time for the holidays. The sto...continued
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Meggie
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over 4 years ago
Pyka and its autonomous, electric crop-spraying drone land $11M seed round
Pyka and its autonomous, electric crop-spraying drone land $11M seed round – TechCrunchModern agriculture involves fields of mind-boggling size, and spraying them efficiently is a serious operational challenge. Pyka is taking on the largely human-powered spray business wi...continued
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Sandrine
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over 4 years ago
Want to start a business in 2020? This $30 tool can help.
Want to start a business in 2020? This $30 tool can help.Source: MashablePowered by NewsAPI.org
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Wilmer
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over 4 years ago
Uber founder Travis Kalanick is leaving the company’s Board of Directors
Uber founder Travis Kalanick is leaving the company’s board of directors – TechCrunchUber founder and former CEO Travis Kalanick is leaving the company’s board of directors, the ride-hailing company announced today. Kalanick will officially resign from the board as of Dec...continued
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Ezequiel
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over 4 years ago
Bannon’s Work with Wanted Chinese Billionaire Began Shortly After He Left White House
Bannon’s Work With Wanted Chinese Billionaire Began Shortly After He Left White HouseAlmost immediately after ending his White House employment, Stephen K. Bannon, the former chief strategist to President Trump, forged a lucrative financial relationship with a mysterious ...continued
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Maida
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over 4 years ago
The Rise of Skywalker’s realest-feeling tech is ancient censorship software
The Rise of Skywalker’s realest-feeling tech is ancient censorship softwareTwo years ago, my former colleague Sarah Jeong laid out how Star Wars: Rogue One — and, indeed, much of the Star Wars mythology — is about internet freedom. A huge amount of the series involves peo...continued
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Ariel
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over 4 years ago
Best Technology Posts of 2019
Best Technology Posts of 201910. Innovative E-Scooters for the Last Mile Commuter E-scooters are the answer for commuters seeking zero emissions transportation in crowded cities and we shared some of the newest and most innovative options.9. Panasonic and Vitra Transparen...continued
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Jimmy upvoted the following post over 4 years ago:
Izaiah
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over 4 years ago
Credit startup Migo expands to Brazil on $20M raise and Africa growth
Credit startup Migo expands to Brazil on $20M raise and Africa growth – TechCrunchAfter growing its lending business in West Africa, emerging markets credit startup Migo is expanding to Brazil on a $20 million Series B funding round led by Valor Capital Group.The San Fran...continued
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Oren
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over 4 years ago
SoftBank Vision Fund invests $275M in India’s Lenskart
SoftBank Vision Fund invests $275M in India’s Lenskart – TechCrunchLenskart, an omni-channel retailer in India that sells eyewear products, said on Friday that it has raised $275 million in a new financing round from SoftBank Vision Fund as it looks to expand its business...continued
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Alan
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over 4 years ago
Trialjectory uses self-reported clinical data to match cancer patients with clinical trials
Trialjectory uses self-reported clinical data to match cancer patients with clinical trials – TechCrunchTrialjectory, which is developing a new technology service to match cancer patients with clinical trials, has raised $2.7 million to finance its continued growth.Led by...continued
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Jimmy upvoted the following post over 4 years ago:
Roger
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over 4 years ago
Daily Crunch: Facebook acquires a cloud gaming startup
Facebook acquires a cloud gaming startup – TechCrunchThe Daily Crunch is TechCrunch’s roundup of our biggest and most important stories. If you’d like to get this delivered to your inbox every day at around 9am Pacific, you can subscribe here.Facebook is building out its ...continued
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over 4 years ago
Beds and their Bedfellows | History Today
The average human spends around one third of their lives in bed. It is easy to imagine that the experience is universal, as our species could not continue without the two most obvious bed-related activities: sleep and sex. However, as Brian Fagan and Nadia Durrani demonst...continued
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Cameron
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over 4 years ago
Uber’s ride-hailing business hit with ban in Germany
Uber’s ride-hailing business hit with ban in Germany – TechCrunchAnother legal blow for Uber in Europe: A regional court in Frankfurt has banned the company from sending ride-hailing requests to rental car companies via its app — with the court finding multiple competitio...continued
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Pablo
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over 4 years ago
Applying big data analytics to patient records, OM1 offers insights to hospitals and pharma
Applying big data analytics to patient records, OM1 offers insights to hospitals and pharma – TechCrunchOM1, a big-data analytics company for the healthcare industry, has raised $50 million in its latest round of financing to expand its sales and marketing and product dev...continued
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Zackery
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over 4 years ago
The Most Disappointing Gadgets of the Decade
The Worst and Most Disappointing Gadgets of the 2010sFor every major leap in technology, there have been plenty of face plants, ill-advised cash grabs, and just plan bad tech. So here are the gadgets and technology that absolutely screwed the pooch.As with our list of mos...continued
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Oren
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over 4 years ago
Huckleberry raises $18M to put small business insurance online
Huckleberry raises $18M to put small business insurance online – TechCrunchThe insurance industry, sleepy and ancient, is ripe for disruption. We’ve seen companies like Lemonade, Hippo and Rhino get in on that opportunity. Today, an insurtech company focused on small busi...continued
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Jimmy upvoted the following post over 4 years ago:
Zackery
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over 4 years ago
The Psychedelic Beauty of Destroyed CDs
The Psychedelic Beauty of Destroyed CDsLike many teenagers growing up in the early- to mid-aughts, Russian photographer Rus Khasanov spent an obscene amount of money on CDs. He displayed his favorites on a shelf—Eminem’s The Marshall Mathers LP, Amy Winehouse’s Back to Bl...continued
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